Taiwanese Mandarin
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Taiwanese Mandarin, natively referred to as Guoyu or Huayu, is the variety of Standard Mandarin spoken in Taiwan. A large majority of the Taiwanese population is fluent in Mandarin, though many can al
Road sign in Nanzih District, Kaohsiung, showing Tongyong pinyin without tone marks (Jyunsiao in Hanyu pinyin is Junxiao)
The protruding green sign, for a bento shop in Taipei, uses a stylistic Japanese の. The sign behind it advertises bento as 便當, another term unique to Taiwanese Mandarin.
Taiwanese Hokkien
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Taiwanese Hokkien, or Taiwanese, also known as Taigi, Taiwanese Taigi, Taiwanese Southern Min, Hoklo and Holo, is a variety of the Hokkien language spoken natively by more than 70 percent of the popul
An issue of the Taiwan Church News, first published by Presbyterian missionaries in 1885. This was the first printed newspaper in Taiwan, and was written in Taiwanese, in the Latin orthography Pe̍h-ōe-jī.
Japanese–Taiwanese Dictionary, using the orthography in kana
Pe̍h-ōe-jī inscription at a church in Tâi-lâm commemorating Thomas Barclay.
A collection of translations of the Bible in Taiwanese. Top left, Today's Taiwanese version; top right, the Red-Cover Bible; bottom, Barclay's translation.